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Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

SIFMA is a Wall Street trade association representing broker-dealers, investment banks and asset managers, lobbying on securities regulation and markets policy.

Known aliases

  • Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
  • SIFMA

Current stories

investConfirmed4 publishers

IMF finds $2.3 billion of tokenized stocks already price the overnight session

IMF research finds more than 85% of overnight moves in tokenized U.S. stocks show up in the listed shares within five minutes of the open. The fund still wants ownership rules settled before a market this thin grows much larger.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 26%
Operator
Operator 35%
Investor
Investor 39%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption6
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence70
investConfirmed3 publishers

Hester Peirce argues in her final SEC weeks that bigger KYC files make criminals harder to find

Hester Peirce used her penultimate week as an SEC commissioner to urge replacing bulk KYC collection with zero-knowledge proofs of eligibility. She filed no proposal and spoke for herself, so the collection rules she criticized stay as written.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 35%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 28%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives50
Confidence65
investConfirmed7 publishers

SEC's token on-ramp: a $5M starter round, a $75M tier, and the end of state review

Regulation Crypto Assets borrows the JOBS Act structure for digital assets and preempts state registration, including on secondary trades. The preemption is the part that changes deal papering.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 29%
Operator
Operator 35%
Investor
Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence72
investOne report1 publisher

Warsh ties part of the yield rise to hyperscalers' funding competition

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said hyperscaler fundraising partly explains rising yields, as companies add about six times the Treasury's increase in bond supply. Pension funds and insurers that buy 30-year paper are being asked to fund both borrowers from a pool Employ America's Skanda Amarnath calls finite.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Codifying crypto AML duties gives bank compliance officers something to price

An American Banker column argues banks retreat from digital asset relationships because a duty built on 2013 FinCEN guidance cannot be measured, and its own precedent, an adviser rule proposed in 2003 and effective in 2028, shows how slowly a statutory fix binds.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives65
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Tokenization becomes the test of whether AMMs capture on-chain liquidity or get bypassed

Hayden Adams calls tokenization the next test for automated market makers. The composition of the $18 billion already on-chain, and a fresh SIFMA warning, suggest it may not go his way.

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption52
Hype gap+22
Incentives76
Confidence41
investOne report1 publisher

Treasury doubled its long-bond buybacks because the long end no longer sells itself

Gilts at 5.81% and 30-year JGBs above 4% put the US long bond inside a range of sovereign alternatives rather than above it. The 10-year was back at 4.74% by Friday.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives46
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

A trade group's litigation threat, not crypto's critics, stalled the SEC's token fundraising rules

The SEC killed its Regulation Crypto Assets meeting three days after calling it. Sources point to the White House, and to SIFMA weighing a challenge to the agency's authority.

Publishers:decrypt.co

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+32
Incentives74
Confidence44